Wait, has anyone theorised that cave art of people hunting is not so much for "religious reasons" as straightforward illustrations of hunting tactics to communicate to other people in the tribe?
I probably wouldn't have gone through the effort of telling the cops anything though. That's their job, and frankly they're terrible at it when they have to do it alone. They don't prevent crime, and they're usually pretty bad at solving crimes. And they're always looking for a reason to turn you into a criminal anyway.
I'm surprised they didn't harass the hell out of this guy when he went in to give an official statement. RT: friedcheese.us/objects/cc69c3a…
I'm going to attach two files to this post. Both I found in a Time Machine backup from 2014. Both are speech synthesizers singing in a language that is not English. Both are ogg files, so I hope they will work. If anyone can identify these, please let me know. and feel free to boost for reach.
The language is German (with a horrible accent), and the song reminds me of Schubert by style, maybe it's one of his. I wonder how they made ESpeak to sing?
@menelion go back in time to about 2012 and ask Twitter. that's how I found both of these. I just can't remember who made them. I'm tempted to submit these to the dectalk archive, requesting they be put into the miscellanious folder temporarily until we find out who made them.
The official HD music video for “Sailing” by Rod Stewart, from his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing. One of Rod Stewart’s most enduring hits, Sailing became a wo...
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.
i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].
of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.
however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.
using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.
i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.
over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].
please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?
@Michael 🇺🇦 i do not understand your question / statement. if there is more info i can give you, pls help me understand what that might be, so that i can help you to help me. thanks.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files. Also you should use "global community" as the channel to base the channel on. The channel "Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files
OMZ! clearly i had no idea... i thought by ticking those boxes i was merely including all such posts along with text posts, not as you said actively excluding all text-only posts... that's a calamitous misunderstanding! that part of the Settings now desperately needs explanatory text there to guide users like me who had no way of knowing what you just explained.
should use "global community"
thank you! i shall now change that in all three of my custom channels [& ditto untick the three boxes in each].
so now i shall be very keen to see if, tomorrow morning, the behaviour has become much better 🤞 🤞 🤞
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"Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline
well ok, but i repeat part of my OP... atm, & historically, HEAPS of my followed-tag posts that are in my timeline [albeit "lost" amongst all the hundreds of other posts], simply never would also appear in my applicable custom channel for that tag. that said, now that you've also told me about those three ticked boxes, maybe that was causing what i just mentioned...?
Just try it out. You should already see the outcome of your changes, since channel posts are collected based on the current definition. You don't need to wait for some hours.
@Michael 🇺🇦 haha, you beat me to it... i just came back here to excitedly post a positive update... it is now working much much much better! it is now close enough to my originally envisaged ideal use-case as to be neither here nor there. finally, this is great! thx so much for --again-- solving one of my Friendica puzzles 🤗🙂
@Droppie [opensoc] Thanks for having asked. I had understood the three checkboxes as declaring things not to be left out and not as a filter for things having to be a part of a posting to be included in the channel, too. Life-long learning. 🙂 @Michael 🇺🇦
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Friendica Support @Droppie [opensoc] I suspect that he is concerned about the fact that the posts in the channels arrive delayed. I’ve been observing the same thing since I’ve been using these channels.
@Thomas fwiw... she. it's not just delayed, it's never appearing at all [or, if they happen to appear >24 hours late, then i regard that as "never", coz my desire / use-case is to use these custom channels first thing in the morning to see what happened overnight, then periodically check them during the day for subsequent new posts on those tags]. by the time tomorrow morn comes around, i'm then looking for the new batch, not still wondering where all those missing ones yesterday got to. how it actually works atm entirely breaks that desire. my biggest confusion about this is that i know my instance is able to access all those posts, coz me doing that manual tag search proves it... so why does the custom channel, configured also for that tag, fail to find the same posts? and i repeat, this is NOT a criticism of my current instance; all my older Friendica instances also failed at this. @Michael 🇺🇦
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I believe if you follow hashtags, posts with those tags appear on your 'Home' tab, not the 'Network' one. I believe the Network one is just the latest posts from other people in the Fediverse. But I could be wrong.
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
@Norm oh! 😲 🤯 that possibility honestly never crossed my mind. thank you. i will begin keeping an eye on that from now on, in hope it gives me a much better outcome.
@Marcus they work but are far less convenient than a custom channel. eg, my channel "FOSS" includes hashtags #Linux, #FOSS, #Firefox, #FirefoxNightly, #Thunderbird, #Arch, #ArchLinux, & several others. To do it manually just by my saved tag search links requites the tedium of having to do all those searches individually in series, not automatically in parallel as done by the channel.
WhatsApp Web has this cool bug where if you switch tabs or windows, when you return, it forces focus into the message list, even if that's not where it was before you left. Fuck sake Meta. Don't fuck with my focus! Guess I'll be hacking around this absurdity as well.
Okay, managed to hack around this: // When the tab loses focus, WhatsApp forces focus into the message list, // regardless of where it was before. Override that absurdity. It's in the latest version of my WhatsApp Web Accessibility Fixes Greasemonkey script: github.com/jcsteh/axSGrease/ra…
@Bri Heh. At least it's Greasemonkeyable, which isn't possible for native apps. But it'd be nice if Meta did things properly and I didn't have to hack around their bugs.
@adisonverlice Sure... so I could use Signal instead, which is utterly unusable with a screen reader on desktop, has no web app so I can't hack it to be more accessible, and kinda sucks with a screen reader on mobile. Totally agree with what you're saying, but unfortunately, I have a choice between Meta's crappy offering and... nothing else. At least nothing else that is usable or that anyone else who isn't a tech nerd uses.
@Bri @x0 What a time to be alive. An app I used to open without needing to really think about it to dash off a quick message now takes much longer to load, is at least an order of magnitude more verbose, and ideally needs to be hosted in a browser.
And you know what makes me angrier than all of that put together? The fact that one of the world's most resourceful companies has the power to interfere with the way real people communicate by refusing to do accessibility right, and nobody's even surprised because of how fucking normalised it is.
Haven't seen this but someone else mentioned it yesterday. No clue why this would be happening. I am about to take PTO for Christmas but I will look out for it when I get back. Sorry you're having to deal with this.
Thanks for the script, its a shame how terrible WhatsApp is now after the death of the UWP app. The links in your blog about pinning the app to the taskbar was also really helpful, didn't know that was a feature in Firefox so it feels more like a stand-alone app.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
***rant***: Silent youtube videos, or youtube videos with nothing but music over the top of them, regardless of their length, can fuck right off. Also, if I tell the algorithm that I'm not interested in a video for whatever reason, it had damn well better stop showing up in my feed. ***End of Rant***
Drag is protected speech. Federal courts already said this law is probably unconstitutional. Uthmeier is only enforcing it because of a legal loophole—not because it's suddenly okay.
The law is intentionally vague.
I got excited for about two seconds only to click on the link and realize it was Visual, nothing to do with music lol. Still cool though, but I can't take advantage of it at all. Have fun regardless.
Idea for #Apple and #Google: Include a setting for their #AI to give photos meaningful file names. Because I'm tired of trying to differentiate between 5187923061456387928_121.jpg and 5892706374823612537_353.jpg. P.S. It would have been nice if even without AI they gave names like current date, current time with seconds and a sequential number… dreaming is not forbidden? right? #Accessibility
In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads.
A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with where the crosswalk is located.
The data duplication on crossing nodes and crossing ways annoys me a lot. I also stopped tagging the button operation when I realized that all local crossing buttons are for audible signals only. There is also a problem with the audible signal tagging for crossings, where `=yes` is apparently supposed to equal `locate`+`walk` 😖
Listening to @bcmerchant.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy BLOOD IN THE MACHINE on @libro.fm@bsky.brid.gy and hit the part in the early 1800's where tradespeople worked from home, made their own hours, and the bosses said "We're putting an end to THAT shit", and reflecting on COVID "back to the office" mandates. Plus ça change ...
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
In nother news, the water in town is off because of some scheduled shutoff at the school or some such. Luckily my folks are prepared with bottled water so there was still coffee this morning.
In another random collection of A T History, I'm starting a YouTube playlist of ads for blindness agencies and companies, like this one for Recording for the Blind. I know there are ACB, NFB, AFB, CNIB, and other ads online as well. If you know of others I'd love to have them. I'll share the playlist once I have a decent amount. youtube.com/watch?v=2qEi0sLBPE…
@nolan I don't want to be the pain in the ass again, but do you have plans to update bevy_tts (and probably bevy_synthizer as well) to latest Bevy soon, or do you think it'd make more sense for me to fork them and keep them up to date myself?
Interested in having push access to the repos and publish access to the crates? TBH I'm a bit more intrigued by Godot these days, but I certainly want these crates to continue on.
OK, this week I can set you up with push access to the repos and crates.io permissions. What's your GH username? And thanks--I'm glad these aren't abandoned! I take it you want access to bevy_tts and bevy_synthizer? Any others?
I'm a blind developer from Germany with quite some experience in full stack web development as well as game and media programming, especially in Python. - Timtam
I've noticed this is a common point of confusion, so for the record, the EU's USB-C charging law does not in any way prohibit other charging methods. It only mandates that if there are any ports on the thing at all, at least one of them better be friggin' USB-C
In 1985, a blind man was arrested for drunken driving in Virginia. He apparently had another sighted person who was drunker than he was directing him by voice. upi.com/Archives/1985/04/17/Bl…
Some things I learned in a talk from a founder and CEO of dating platforms: - Dating platforms certainly use machine learning to create the profile proposals for users. That's called recommender systems. - They are not interested in giving you the perfect match, because that would mean that you don't need the platform anymore. - They use priming. This means they categorize the "attractivity" of people. And let's say you are a 6 or 7 (out of 10) in their system, they first present 8 or 9 graded profiles to you, expecting the "8 person" to reject you. But this primes your expectations of "what you can get". And hence when presented with a good matching profile, you probably will judge this as being below your expectations.
Religious cults need to get into the dating apps game. They could genuinely make a difference here (because nobody else will), making the world better for all of us while spreading their own values.
A museum dedicated to nothing but (making) maps? And you'd like us to show visitors how they can make maps themselves with OSM? Of course! The MAP–Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is back and we are there for the opening festival, until Jan 3rd. Dates at community.openstreetmap.org/t/… Museum info: mapsint-niklaas.be/mercator
OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP – Mercator Museum Opening! Call for volunteers The brand-new MAP – Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is reopening soon, and OpenStreetMap Belgium will be part of the opening festivities! The theme of the opening festiv…
FreeBSD has Wireguard support in the base OS, but it's not well documented how to use it. So here you go. Hopefully an example lands in the FreeBSD Handbook soon.
Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux.
I'm still collecting Christmas elements for my Automation for hkc @radio. Some may argue that I shouldn't bother, as there are still bitss that have yet to be played, with only 1 show repeating twice. This is crazy because it started December second
Štěpáne, moc díky za nasměrování na #immich to je něco, co jsem opravdu dlouho hledal. 👍 Tvoje přednáška na #peertube #vhsky byla podnětná, zase mě to nakoplo opustit další služby na bigtech. Díky! @stepan
This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please.
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The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the publisher would now be turning to AI: ‘An external contractor, the communications agency Fluent Planet, will put the texts through “automatic translation” software and then recruit freelancers directly to post-edit the machine output in French. The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’
A number of French translators have been working for Harlequin for years, often exclusively. This decision places them in an extremely precarious position, without proper notice or compensation.
Praha zažívá trolejbusový boom, o kterém se nám před pár lety ani nesnilo. Ale nejde jen o nové tratě, jde i o vozidla. Do pražských ulic vyrazila na testování doposud málo známá turecká Bozankya.
V dnešním pozitivním komentáři se podíváme na to, proč je vnitřek Bozankye SNG 12T prostě jiný a lepší. Kam zmizela ta otravná motorová věž? Jak je možné, že působí tak vzdušně, i když má standardní rozměry? A všimli jste si toho obrovského okna vzadu?
protip: If you're going to rip off someone's Harry Potter #fanfic, and have a bad AI voice read it, maybe check to make sure it's not an explicit drary slashfic before uploading it to your Harry Potter Playtime Fun channel, and marking the video "for children".
Maybe while you're at it, consider picking a British voice? And proofreading the titles so they have the correct chapter numbers? And not skipping chapter seven completely? It must take extra work to do crime this badly!
Just a few tips for the scammers out there. I know crediting the original author and doing an actual human reading just isn't possible; you've gotta upload a couple hundred videos a week, after all!
@SeveraSnape@pixelate Searching youtube for Harry Potter Fanfic or Harry Potter Chapter and sorting by recent really is a delight. Weird AI read fanfics. Weird machine translated Chinese webnovels with Harry Potter inserted into them for some reason, also read by AI. Weird badly pirated versions of the original audiobooks. Weird people making there own audiobooks. Gameplay footage. Real people reading real fanfics. Incomprehensible videos about Bella from Twilight dating Harry Potter. All just mashed together in a delightful pile of complete nonsense.
@SeveraSnape@pixelate You know you need to listen to "Harry Potter: What! infamous Voldemort was merely a minor boss Chapter 61-80". Or maybe "The System Made Me a Tyrant, Setting Up Shop at Hogwarts Chapter 81 - 100".
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The idea of Matrix as a chat service is nice. But the fact that it keeps going out of sync, and I keep losing messages from other people is just plain annoying. This is worse than IRC net split (at least there was a message when it happened).
@matrix My account is on matrix.org, and I'm using ElementX 25.12.0 on Android. The channel is on a different server, and there's a bunch of people bridging to different services (like Telegram). I bet I'm either losing the messages from the bridged people, or the ones from 3rd party servers.
this would be very unusual, but if it's super high volume or if the room has weird corruption it might explain it. any idea what room version it is? (on Element Web you can check in settings)
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